NANA-FRANCISCA SCHOTTLÄNDER – This is a Place of Rest

Participatory performance workshop between art and activism

What happens when we rest in a place – together with the place?

This is a Place of Rest is a performative soundwalk through Refshaleøen, where narration and sound guide us into a landscape shaped by speed, efficiency, consumption and growth. What emerges when resting bodies enter a place unaccustomed to stillness?

We are invited to sink into the material layers and stories of the place. Can we come into contact with the place through rest? Sense its materiality and layers of time — past, present, possible futures?

The workshop opens a space for embodied listening and a different tempo. Rest becomes a way of connecting with what was, is, and could be.

Our bodies create new layers and narratives, pointing toward other ways of encountering the place — perhaps as a quiet resistance to the logics that exhaust both people and places.

ABOUT NANA-FRANCISCA SCHOTTLÄNDER

Nana-Francisca Schottländer works at the intersection of performance/choreography, visual arts, research, and ecology. With a background in dance and a sustained engagement with landscape as both material and collaborator, her practice explores the co-creational potentials of encounters and exchanges between human and more-than-human bodies – stone, soil, water, and weather.

Central to her work is the use of the body as a living instrument for research and creation – often engaging the audience/participants’ own bodies and senses.

In recent years, she has had a strong focus on places and matter heavily marked by human activity such as extraction, production, consumption and growth. She works actively to challenge the logics imbedded in them through participatory performances, immersive installations and larger exhibitions. She has created a series of large-scale works in a.o. Copenhagen and Norway together with Metropolis and international institutions.

 

PRACTICAL INFO

Duration: 90 min.
Participants: 15
Age: 15+
Language: English

Photo: Marine Gastineau (1) // Andreas Strand Renberg (2) for the project Material Displacements, produced by OIT, Fredrikstad 2023